Recent content by Tim K

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    Tom's Hardware Italy's Bruno Gulotta Victim Of Barcelona Terrorist Attack

    I'm a bit late in seeing this, but my condolences as well.
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    What is better for DIY NAS: bunch of USB 3.0 drives or bunch of SATA drives?

    My gut preference would be to use straight SATA and avoid overhead from the USB->SATA.... aesthetically, that will also save you having half a dozen external power adapters plugged in for all those drives. I might strongly recommend against RAID-5, however, in favor of RAID 1+0. Given the size...
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    Post Your Biggest CPU Mistakes

    This was *very* early in my hobbyist days, almost 20 years ago now, but after spending the better part of half an hour figuring out how to pry the CPU from it's socket (it was a 386, to give you some idea of timeline), and mucking up more than a few of the pins, I realized there was the little...
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    i7-4710MQ operating only at 0.7 GHZ

    Sounds like the turbo boost setting in the BIOS/UEFI may be disabled... I'd start there.